savingness

noun — 2 senses

savingness

noun

Etymology From saving + -ness.

1

The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.

  • Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness […]1885, Helen Hunt Jackson, Zeph: A Posthumous Story:
2

Tendency to promote religious salvation.

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